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Dave Child
Asked: 2013-02-22 04:13:04 +0800 CST

How can I set Apache's .gitignore file?

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I'm running a local dev server on Apache. I have a script (written in PHP) that scans all of the local dev sites I have up and running, and tells me which have outstanding items to commit to git. When I run git status as my own user, git ignores the files set in my .gitignore file. But when I run the command via Apache/PHP, those files are not ignored.

I'm not sure I'm explaining that very well, so by way of a demonstration, I have a folder with three files:

file1.txt
file2.php
file3.backup

My gitignore contains this line, to ignore all backup files:

*.backup

When I run the git status command manually, I see this (with the backup file correctly ignored):

dave$ git status
file1.txt
file2.php

If I run exec('cd /dir/ && git status -s /dir/', $output); from PHP, I see:

file1.txt
file2.php
file3.backup

The backup file shows up as an unversioned file.

I don't want to set the gitignore on a per-repo basis. Is there any way I can get my www-data user to use a gitignore? Or is there a higher-level gitignore setting for all users on a machine?

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. You can set a global .gitignore using the following configuration command:

    git config --global core.excludesfile /path/to/.gitignore_global

    Note that the filename could be whatever you want, in the example I've used .gitignore_global

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